[OS X TeX] Bibliography: pedestrian way works too...

[Mohinish]

Hi,
I was thinking of being able to distribute the .tex file itself, so it 
would be easiest to use the 'pedestrian' way, but with only the 
relevant bibtex entries inserted automatically..
from what I see, the .bbl files are not(?) bibtex? Im sorry, I dont 
know.. Is it the case that if I insert the .bbl file entries into my 
.tex it would work as if I had inserted the bibtex entries themselves?
(nb: i use apacite for the American Psych. Assn  style of formatting)
thanks
Mohinish



On 13 Jan 2005, at 10:17 AM, Holger Frauenrath wrote:

>
> On Jan 13, 2005, at 10:04, Mohinish wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I was wondering about this: I have a rather large bibliography 
>> (bibtex) file, and generally all the articles I write pick out 
>> citations out of it. What I was thinking was, in order to distribute 
>> just the tex file, it would be great to be able to imbed the 
>> necessary bibtex entries into the file. I thought of writing an 
>> Applescript which would search through all the \cite commands, 
>> extract the relevant entries from a bibtex file (directory of files?) 
>> and insert these at the end of the tex doc.
>> 	Of course, being cr at p at Applescript, I got nowhere :(
>> Does someone have something similar?
>> Thanks in advance!
>> -Mohinish
>
> I may be completely wrong, but isn't it like during the BibTeX run of 
> your file foo.tex, a file foo.bbl is created that contains just the 
> cited references? Or is this not what you want? The references in the 
> .bbl are formatted. Do you mean to embed the complete reference 
> information?
>
> Holger
>
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